Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[kuntrygirl]

I have another goose egg that is zipping under a turkey egg as of last night.

 

[pete55]

pete55, love the pics of the adult geese, gosling and incubator. I could take ALL of them.

Oh bless you and you're not the first to offer

We're VERY pleased with the new incubator as we get more familiar with it. Waiting to see if it commences its first automatic cooling period this afternoon (if I programmed it correctly)! All other features very accurate with smooth as silk turning motion.

Humidity already averaging 8% lower than other incubators with excellent air flow. So far much to recommend it except the expense though sold some our old incubators to justify the money paid

 

[Iain Utah]

My 3rd dewlap is 3/4 done zipping and apparently I have a knack for hatching boys...... since all 3 are grey. I have 3 more dewlap eggs due to hatch in 3-4 days.... do you think one could be a girl? Sheesh!

 

[pete55]

Iain

I'm sorry you've not got your Buff yet but I'm sure something will come along in the next 3

After all you've had your 3 greys and now its time to even things up with 3 Buffs.

I'll be right there with you again in a few more days with eggs due from my best pairing for Buffs.

Pete

 

[Iain Utah]

I shouldn't be disappointed. After all, they are hatching out beautifully which makes me very happy, especially after my awful start to the season. But still..... I don't need any boys and now I have 3. Anyone want a grey split to buff dewlap gander??!?!?!? I'll make you a great deal.

 

[pete55]

The way to look at is that you've had 3 males and the odds have increased substantially for a Buff in the next eggs. I think out of the 6 eggs its something like 97.5% odds that there will be a Buff - pretty high odds there.

Also you've proved the pair and know they produce viable healthy goslings - a great start

 

[pips&peeps]

Mom was cleaning their brooder. This is a welsh harlequin from my last hatch and the gosling. Two more pips yesterday. Hopefully they will hatch by the end of the day.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mom was cleaning their brooder. This is a welsh harlequin from my last hatch and the gosling. Two more pips yesterday. Hopefully they will hatch by the end of the day.

 

[zooweemama]

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I'm back, online. Last Tuesday, it went down, and thru calls , visits, etc, it was their switching station , and we didn't have it till last Sat. night. So I  couldn't ask for ADVICE .  (then  Thur, I awoke to a power outage, but had the incubators on a power backup, and  then we got  generator running for the  3 hours it was out )I'd hatched the  first set of ducklings,6 Dutch Hookbills and one silky Duck out of my first batch. As i mentioned the  goose eggs are from  my less than a year old Shetland Geese and  pair of Super Africans I got from Dave Holderreads  last year and one gandar the year before, so  thought I'd try to set them. (Using Hovabators) . After the  ducks hatched , which I have found now are early hatchers , like 26 1/2 days. So I left what I had  left  in incubator, Most had hatched between the  11-13th.(DHB). So I waited, noted a smell, checked DIS, silkies, DHB's.... threw out , put last African egg in other bator, cleaned the  hatcher.Put back, waited , thought it  was dead(34 days) no  tapping, low float in water,(not  sure about the whole float test, as the dead ones floated the same height).. Finally I drilled a hole in top, nothing for a while, so I took cap off, it  was alive ! . So I  tried to recap it with a clean shell (didn't know about the boiling shell , till after internet came back) . Put it back, next morning  it had ex. pipped below the cap! Tried to remember to  leave it along. Long story short, after 3-4 days of all this, it's peeping was weak (membrane stayed white, no  blood, ) I finaly  got it's head free, , yolk, sticky on head , gluing  it some, it  tried to struggle , out, but hadn'[t absorbed yolk (I don't think it  could turn in shell....I believe it  got too big for the shell-could this be from it being a yearling egg and too small perhaps? So I  put  it in a cup and  waited , hoping yolk would absorb. ...it did....after it was done, I let it come out of shell (shell was clean).. it was  so sticky on it's head, and eyes so I  put it in warm water and tried to clean it  off, the wrapped in towel and  put back in hatcher. , 8 hours later it was dead..... DANG!
    What I learned...after reading  DH book,  they put different  breeds in  on a staggered schedule so that they hatch on the same date...so instead  of putting all eggs at same time,  they  put them in so they hatch on same day...... duh!!! He took 36 days....that seems really long,and my temps were pretty stable in the Hovabator..(mostly 102, but 2 spikes of 104, but I caught them (when outside temp got  80, and house went up  to 78...I then realised that it was the room temp affecting it!, so I  put ac on and had to alternate with the  heat (spring in Ga.) to keep  room between 70-74. (last year I had in laundry room , with huge spikes, because I believe now , the  humidity and heat by the  dryer, and the 2 connecting doors , one to garage, the room was acting  like a airlock, duh! with vastly changing temps and humidity. 
    I have cleaned the hatcher and have a dozen or so duck eggs put in today for lockdown, and  have 4 goose eggs,--trying to decide whether to  put them in hatcher NOW with the duck eggs they incubated with or wait a couple more days... so they can  dehydrate more ... also am DROPPING my HUMIDITY in incubator (wtih staggered groups of duck and goose eggs (full) from  51-60% that is had down to  40%...I did wash duck eggs with warm/hot water like D book said, and the new group , only get a bit or peroxide dip, then rinse off with water. (first group had soap/ or  didluted bleach to clean under running warm water...but after reading, realised , soaps have oils in them, and bleach may be bad too...)
    My Tuft. Buff goose is still setting on her foster eggs, I believe there are 2 Shetlands and an african, I  put under her....
   
I am also thinking of getting a fan unit or another incubator with a fan in the next couple days (my hatcher has some taped up  cracks, was damaged in shipping) SUGGESTIONS welcome ...

 
[/quotI dealt with this in my Hovabator too. When the temps outside got warm the bator would spike to 1o3-1054 at times. I was constantly fiddling - very trusting. The entire hatch was a bust. I put the a/c on so no more spikes now BUT it will sometimes run around 100 but I'm thinking that won't hurt as much the 102-104 spikes. I just can't control the weather. It's all over the place right now. I'm so sorry for your tough time too!

 

[pete55]

Mom was cleaning their brooder. This is a welsh harlequin from my last hatch and the gosling. Two more pips yesterday. Hopefully they will hatch by the end of the day.

Congratulations Jean and a nice result to come home to after the show.

Pete